Rukmani Bhatia is the Advocacy and Legislative Director for Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. Rukmani previously served as a lobbyist for Giffords, where she advocated for federal gun safety legislation, including the now enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Prior to that, Rukmani was a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, where she regularly published on ways to strengthen federal and state laws and regulations to reduce gun violence in communities across the nation. Rukmani also served at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Obama administration and was the inaugural Hillary R. Clinton research fellow for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security. Rukmani received her Bachelor’s Degree from Wellesley College and her Master’s degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.